Re: Where to store Blobs? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Where to store Blobs?
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Msg-id 49bb4b7f88aae994e414d34e4dcd350c1217eccc.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Where to store Blobs?  (Thomas Güttler <guettliml@thomas-guettler.de>)
Responses Re: Where to store Blobs?  (Chuck Martin <clmartin@theombudsman.com>)
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Thomas Güttler wrote:
> Now I realized: Nobody talked about Blobs.
> 
> I guess most people do not store Blobs in PostgresSQL.
> 
> Where do you store Blobs?
> 
> (In my case Blobs are PDF/image files with size up to 20 MByte.
> I do not talk about very big blobs which are several hundret MByte)

Ideally outside the database, if they are many.
Large databases are harder to backup than large file systems.

If you keep 20MB binaries in the database, you'd use the "bytea" data type.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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